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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Oct. 27, 2020
Filed:
May. 10, 2017
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Hiroaki Sakaguchi, Kanagawa, JP;
Sony Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
The present technology relates to an arithmetic processing device and an arithmetic processing method that enable the reduction of a circuit area while lowering power consumption, in performing more reliable arithmetic operations of a neural network. In arithmetic operations of the neural network, the arithmetic processing device makes a specific part of bits of a weighting coefficient and input data used for the arithmetic operations redundant such that redundancy of the specific part of bits becomes larger than redundancy of remaining bits except the specific part of bits, thereby being able to reduce the circuit area while lowering the power consumption in performing reliable arithmetic operations of the neural network. The present technology can be applied to, for example, an arithmetic processing device configured to perform arithmetic operations of a neural network.